What the Best Managers Know and Do

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• FUN, PLAY AND WORK

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Are fun and play incompatible with work? I have worked for my share of managers whose behavior towards their subordinates certainly seemed to suggest these two things do not mix.  I have never believed that, however, and have experienced the reasons… Read More ›

• TEAM PERFORMANCE: THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF FULFILLED HUMAN NEEDS

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 15, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I have focused on the topic of teams several times in this series of articles.  And indeed there has been enough written about the topic these past twenty-five years to fill an entire library shelf. I return to the subject here,… Read More ›

• Abilene Paradox

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 7, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  What do you call the phenomana when a group of people silently agree on the dubious merits of an idea or course of action but for whatever reason choose not to articulate their thoughts and proceed to do precisely the… Read More ›

• THOSE ELECTRONIC SCREENS: A CAUTIONARY NOTE

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Not long ago, I was walking along a corridor in the facility where I go several times a week to put my aging body through regular physical workouts. I passed by a gathering of four young teens huddled in close proximity… Read More ›

• HARD WORK REVISITED: GRIT

  By Terry Joseph Busch on February 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Some time ago, I wrote an article in this collection entitled “Good Managers Work At It”.  The point of my essay was that success at almost anything is usually related to the amount of hard work one is prepared to invest… Read More ›

• THE NATURE OF FACTS

  By Terry Joseph Busch on February 9, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The Webster Dictionary defines a FACT as “the quality of being actual; something that has actual existence; a piece of information presented as having objective reality; something that hinges on evidence”. So when you say “in fact”, what you are… Read More ›

• SEEING WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

  By Terry Joseph Busch on November 15, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  2016 was quite a political year in the United Kingdom and the United States. The outcome of the UK’s BREXIT vote and the US Presidential election came as a shock to millions. Conventional wisdom, pundits, most of the political cognoscenti… Read More ›

• HOW CAN I SCREW UP THIS SITUATION?

  By Terry Joseph Busch on September 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Perhaps this sounds like a strange question to ask yourself but believe me it has helped me avoid many a mistake as a manager and in my personal life. In any situation or management scenario there are numerous ways to… Read More ›

• SHOULD MANAGERS ATTEMPT TO SELL THEIR ORGANIZATION’S DECISIONS?

  By Terry Joseph Busch on August 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Actually they should not. The concept of selling anything contains the notion that the prospective buyer has a choice.  They can either buy something offered on sale or walk away. Organizational decisions, however, require COMPLIANCE not a choice.  Gaining compliance is management’s job and… Read More ›

• MANAGING YOUR ATTENTION SPAN

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  In Michael Lewis’ book “The Big Short” he describes the listening style of a major character Steve Eisman thusly: “Eisman had a curious way of listening; he didn’t so much listen to what you were saying as subcontract to some… Read More ›

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